Feature Requests item #316, was opened at 2005-03-21 16:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=316&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None
Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Michael Zedler (zedler) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: cmap, pdftex, distiller
Initial Comment: Hello, In order to make pdf files searchable for non-latin characters (e.g. polytonic greek) one needs to include so-called cmap files into the pdf. As far as I know such a pdf can be generated by either 1) using pdflatex with cmap.sty and an appropriate .cmap file 2) using dvips+Distiller (not ps2pdf) Adobe Distiller seems to contain extra logic to automatatically generate appropriate cmaps and also translate ligatures into single-letter cmap entries. Generating cmap files by hand is pretty tedious, in particular if the encoding is automatically generated by e.g. a tool like otftotfm (non-standard ligatures are automatically but into free encoding slots; depending on the font version the assignment varies). Thus for the pdftex approach it'd be very nice to have this automatism, too. Possible? Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: The Thanh Han (hanthethanh) Date: 2007-07-30 11:45
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=710 This feature has been implemented in pdftex (patch #580). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=316&group_id=106